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Gerald Harper
Born: 15th Feb 1931 London, England, UK - Died 2nd Jul 2025
Dept: Acting
Gerald Harper (15 February 1931 – 2 July 2025) was an English actor, best known for his work on television, having played the title roles in Adam Adamant Lives! (1966–67) and Hadleigh (1969–76). He then returned to his main love, the theatre. Harper was married to actress Jane Downs from 1957 until they divorced in 1975. In 2001, when he was in his early seventies, he began a relationship with 30-year-old actress Sarah Alexander; the relationship ended when she left him for actor Peter Serafinowicz in 2002.
Harper died at the age of 94 on 2 July 2025.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 31
Film: 16 (52%)
Television: 15 (48%)
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Filmography
2008
A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama. ... view
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1979
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, ... view
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Todhunter
1976
A made for TV BBC documentary exploring Jack Donovan's antique automaton collection. The documentary focuses on the toys themselves, displaying their ... view
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narrator
Original title: If It's a Man... Hang Up!
1975
A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls. ... view
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Greg Miles
Apr 1973 (first aired)
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-containe ... view
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Greg Miles (1 ep.)
Sep 1969 (first aired)
Hadleigh was a British television series made by Yorkshire Television which originally ran from 1969 to 1976. Developed by Robert Barr, it was a seque ... view
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James Hadleigh (52 ep.)
1968
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon ... view
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Brian
Sep 1968 (first aired)
After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enh ... view
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Croft (1 ep.)
Sep 1968 (first aired)
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produce ... view
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Lucius Vitellius (1 ep.)
Aug 1968 (first aired)
London millionaire playboy, James Hadleigh, returns to his Yorkshire birthplace and buys a local newspaper his father founded and decides to turn it i ... view
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James Hadleigh (13 ep.)
Jan 1968 (first aired)
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests. ... view
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Self (3 ep.)
Jun 1966 (first aired)
Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an ... view
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Unknown/various (29 ep.)
Feb 1966 (first aired)
The once famous athlete Bob Kerry dies mysteriously on a golf course. His son Jack, a detective, suspects murder and decides to investigate the case. ... view
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Det. Insp. Jack Kerry (6 ep.)
1965
What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, inc ... view
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Inspector Murray
Mar 1965 (first aired)
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at El ... view
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Deputy Commander Rae Cox (1 ep.)
Jan 1965 (first aired)
Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a ... view
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Raymond Franks (1 ep.)
1964
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, fil ... view
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Sheik / Scotsman / Harold
Mar 1964 (first aired)
Ex-insurance investigator Ian Souter sets up his own security agency - the SIS (Specialists in Security) - along with ex-cop Robert Shoesmith & secret ... view
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Hon. Arthur Keir (1 ep.)
1963
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who g ... view
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1st Drunk
Jun 1962 (first aired)
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular a ... view
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Colonel Tanner (1 ep.)
Original title: The Young Ones
1961
Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £150 ... view
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Watts
Jan 1961 (first aired)
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, ... view
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Colonel Corf (3 ep.)
1960
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit ... view
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Major Hugo Macmillan
1960
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboa ... view
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Captain Saunders
Sep 1959 (first aired)
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1958
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect ... view
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3rd Officer - Carpathia
1957
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still b ... view
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Ernest
1956
A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property d ... view
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Dicky
1956
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he ta ... view
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Walter "Duds" Morrison
1955
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 S ... view
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RAF Officer (uncredited)